Casting fun times

Reloading
1

.]()

image-20190319_125927
image-20190319_125927.jpg2048×1152 991 KB

All ready to bang out some slugs and a few .58’s for @juststarting (so I can shoot his snider)
when this happens, LOL!
com-gif-maker%20(2)
ezgif.com-gif-maker (2).gif600×1067 3.07 MB

That’s not meant to happen, lol!
It seems that all the crap and corruption from melting range lead has clogged up the valve seat (or what ever you wanna call it).
So pulled it apart and gave it all a good clean up with steel wool.
20190319_142911
20190319_142911.jpg1152×2048 789 KB

Before.

20190319_145609
20190319_145609.jpg1152×2048 771 KB
20190319_150942
20190319_150942.jpg1152×2048 805 KB

and after.
image-20190319_135154
image-20190319_135154.jpg2048×1152 1.42 MB

Some of the crap I cleaned out of it, there was lots more.
So this here is all I managed to cast today lol!
20190319_151029
20190319_151029.jpg1152×2048 1.08 MB

From now on I’ll make ingots in a pot on a gas burner and only put nice clean lead into the lee pot.

1 Like
2

Very artistic molding job, sell it to one of those yuppy art galleries and tell them it represents the anguish of life. They will snap it up.

On another note, how’s the arm and neck going?

3

Lol, yeah maybe I missed my calling in life, maybe i’m really an artist…

Neck / arm is getting better, thanks mate.

1 Like
4

casting%20bullets
casting bullets.jpg709×990 213 KB

My highly technical casting equipment. Works for me.

5

That’s how I will make my ingots in the future, but for actual casting the bottom pour pot speeds things up a whole bunch. You know except for those times when you have to empty it out, wait for it to cool down and then pull it to bits and clean all the crap out of it lol, didn’t get any cast today.
Did manage to resize and prime a bunch of .243 brass while it cooled down at least.

6

That’s how I make ingots. Used ladle, but after getting bottom poure, no way I can go back.

7

I use it for both ingots and casting bullets. Very technical. Too technical for most. :joy:

1 Like
8

20190321_134321
20190321_134321.jpg1152×2048 917 KB

Pot works a treat again after its clean out.

9

Only use clean lead in bottom pour pots.
Melting scrap lead, range lead, wheel weights or whatever in a metal pot over a gas burner, fluxing it and cleaning out the crud before pouring into ingots is the way to go.

10

Sadly I learn all my lessons the hard way :pensive:

1 Like
11

Anyone that hasn’t had that happen with a bottom pour pot, hasn’t dones much casting.

1 Like
12

20190326_151310
20190326_151310.jpg2048×1152 845 KB

Righto then, let’s make an ingot!

13

Cupcakes time!

14

Yea… cupcakes!

20190326_161543
20190326_161543.jpg2048×1152 795 KB

15

20190326_162828
20190326_162828.jpg2048×1152 880 KB

1 Like